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Auricle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Anatomy The outer projecting portion of the ear. Also called pinna.

n. Anatomy See atrium.

n. Biology An earlobe-shaped part, process, or appendage, especially at the base of an organ.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The outer ear or pinna.

n. An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.

n. An atrium, the smaller of the two types of heart chamber.

n. Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

n. The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See heart.

n. An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

n. An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The pinna of the external ear; that part of the organ of hearing which projects from the side of the head. See pinna, and cut under ear. Also auricula.

n. A chamber or one of the chambers of the heart into which the blood comes from the veins, and from which it passes into the ventricle or one of the ventricles.

n. Something, or some part of a thing, like or likened to an ear: variously applied, chiefly in botany, zoölogy, and comparative anatomy.

n. An instrument applied to the ears to assist in hearing; a kind of ear-trumpet.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart

n. the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear

Word Usage

"Right at the start of my experiments upon animals it had occurred to me, as to other investigators, that one could penetrate diagonally through the right auricle from the upper into the lower vena cava."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

pocket pouch

Cross Reference

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Variant

heart

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pavilion pinna

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